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TRAIN ORDER DELIVERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 111113.26, 1911.

Patented May 14, 1912.

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TRAIN-ORDER-DELIVERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14., 1912.

Application filed. August 26, 1911. Serial No. 646,175.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. SEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Train-Order- Delivering Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for delivering train orders or messages to engineers or conductors of moving trains, the object of the invention being to provide a device of this character which will possess such improvements over my Patent #972,654, of

October 11, 1910, as will permit of the device being manufactured at less expense and which will include novel retaining means for the message.

Another object of the invention is to provide a message holder which will include a collecting and grasping member and a handle member, the former being removably mounted on the latter so that it may be collected when grasped by the hand of the receiver.

In the drawing, forming a portion of this specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the message holder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through a portion of the same.

My improved train order deliverin device or message holder comprises a cdllecting and grasping member 1 which is preferably constructed of wire bent in ring form and covered if desired by a suitable padding 2. The terminal 3 of the ring forming wire is offset, at 4, and secured by solder or otherwise suitably fastened to the terminal 5 of the wire. The said terminal 3 extends outwardly from the terminal 5, as shown at 6, to form an intervening substantially V-space 7 between the portions 5 and 6 for the reception of the message. The portion 6 has its end 8 extended in the direction of the ring and it is looped therearound, at 9. The portion 6 is yieldable so that the message may be securely confined between the portions 5 and 6 and held in the space 7 against accidental displacement.

The handle 10 of the device is provided at its outer end with a socket 11 in which the intertwisted terminals 12 of the arms 13 are engaged and securely confined therein.

The arms 13 extend in opposite directions from each other and collectively they form a fork of substantially semispherical configuration. The outer ends of the arms 13 are provided with substantially U-sockets 141. which are designed to receive the opposite sides of the ring member 1, as shown clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The arms 13 are movable relatively and are yieldable or somewhat elastic so that normally they will yieldingly engage against the ring 1 to hold the same securely in receiving position. \Vith a view of preventing partial rotation of the ring member in the supporting arms lo, I provide the handle with a retainer 15 having a forked outer portion 16 whose arms are adapted to straddle the inner portion of the ring 1, as shown.

The device as described is extremely simple, it may be manufactured at a relatively low cost and used in a convenient manner for delivering train orders or messages, obviating the necessity of stopping the train to receive such orders. In operation, the handle portion of the device is held in the hand of the one delivering the message so that the ring portion is positioned for convenient reach of the engineer who may collect the device by grasping the ring portion so as to remove the same, with the message from the handle.

The device as constructed herein may be manufactured at a relatively low cost and in use the device will be found most desirable in that the liability of injury to the ones holding and receiving the device will be entirely obviated, incident to the fact that the handle port-ion 10 of the device is not removed from the hands of the one holding the message. It will of course be understood that in operation when pull is exerted on the ring 1 by the receiver of the message it may be readily removed from the supporting arms 13 and without liability of the message becoming lost or destroyed.

I claim:

1. A message holder comprising a supporting member having yieldable arms thereon, the said arms having sockets there in, a message retaining device having portions fitting in the sockets of said yieldable arms, and means on the supporting member for holding the message retaining device operatively associated with said yieldable arms.

9.. A message holder comprising a slip forked member carried by the handle member and having spaced arm portions extending against the sides of the ring to hold the 15 ring against rotation in the arms, and a message retaining device carried by the ring.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM T. SEE.

Witnesses:

EARL HARNED, CHAs. H. YoN'rs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0. 

